US Patent Issued to Syniverse Technologies on Dec. 16 for "Multi-factor authentication with device and carrier validation" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,747, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Syniverse Technologies LLC (Tampa, Fla.).

"Multi-factor authentication with device and carrier validation" was invented by Chris Wright (Plant City, Fla.) and Rajan John Thomas (Sanford, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides systems, methods, and computer-readable media for multi-factor authentication (MFA) using device and carrier validation. A user device generates an attested blob containing cryptographic keys and a Universal Integrated Circuit Card (UICC)-originated International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI), which is transmitted to a cloud-based MFA service. The s...